Shadowing Practice: Jeremy and Richard Build a Car for Pensioners! | Top Gear Classic - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Three and six, thirty-six.
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We expected bingo to be very relaxing.
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Eight and one, eighty-one.
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But it wasn't.
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Two and one, twenty-one.
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I've never concentrated so hard in my life.
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Two and eighty, twenty-eight.
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Oh!
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I'm literally wetting myself.
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Three and one and five...
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It's coming out!
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All the sixes, sixty-six.
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Oh!
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Say eighty-six.
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Five, sixty-seven.
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Wrong!
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Even though we'd lost 17 shillings, we'd had a great toy.
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I'm calling exciting.
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Was it ever?
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But afterwards, there was an issue.
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Now, Jeremy, can I ask a question?
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Can you remember where we parked our car?
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No, Richard, I can't.
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This is a common problem, and not just for the elderly, which is why you may have noticed on top of our car was a box.
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In that box is a special feature that I can activate if I press this button on the key fob.
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There it is.
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You see, this activates a flare, and we now know to head in that direction.
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Very quickly, we found the correct car park, but we still couldn't find the car.
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You're the height of most elderly people.
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Can you see our car in this car park?
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No, I can't.
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And that's why, if I press this button...
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Mm-hmm.
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Let's see.
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So it's brilliant.
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The flare guides us to the rough position and the balloon takes us to the precise location of the car.
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Having wound in the balloon locator system, we decided to find out how our car would go down with some actual old people.
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So we set off to an old people's home.
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Turn right at the newfangled biddy roundabout.
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And on the way, I showed Hammond another of my special features.
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Now, the radio, Hammond, just one station.
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It's the music from the Horse of the Year show.
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And old people love that, cos you can clap along to it.
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Very nice.
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Is it tuning to any of the stations?
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No. That's it.
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It just plays it on a loop, constantly.
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But why do you want anything else?
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What if you get in your car after your children have been driving it and they've left it tuned to Radio 1?
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Worse still, Radio 2 and that talk show man who does...
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Jeremy Vine.
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There you go, those difficult topics.
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They're unsuitable.
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Not by pregnancy.
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Exactly.
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However, there was a problem.
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I can't stop clapping.
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Seriously, I can't stop clapping.
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This is a massive design, Walt.
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Turn it off.
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Eventually, we arrived at the old people's home.
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Well done.
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That was lovely.
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And went to find a testing team.
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So, you're Miriam.
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Hi, I'm, yes.
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And you're Betty.
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Yes.
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I'm Barbara.
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And you're Barbara.
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And this is the car that we've...
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What is she called?
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No, this is the James.
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Called the James.
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James.
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The James.
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The Rover James.
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Oh, it's a Rover, yes.
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First impressions, what do we think?
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That's wonderful.
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This material is waterproof.
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Oh, good.
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So, if there's any little accidents, don't you worry.
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However, there was an issue with the Shackleton rear seating.
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Have you got a hoist?
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That bit there.
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See, in the advert for the chairs, we were told they were very easy to get into and out of, you know.
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Get me bottom round.
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Should we get a nurse to do this?
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You're an older...
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No, I'll do it if it kills me.
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Well, we'd rather it didn't.
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Oh, right, I was gonna say.
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There's a lot of paperwork.
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I'm so sorry.
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Can I help at all?
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Yay!
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With both our dignity nearly intact.
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Lovely.
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With the testing team on board, we set off to the Bulls Club.
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Don't overdo it, not with your back.
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Look at the speed we're going now, three miles an hour, as you can see.
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Oh, isn't this absolute fun?
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Soon we reached our destination.
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Here we are, ladies, at the bowling club.
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Ooh, lovely.
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And Hammond insisted I show off his new parking sensors.
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Just keep going.
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Yeah, keep going.
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You know there's no bumper on the back.
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Just keep backing up.
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Ignore the noise, pretend you can't hear that at all.
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That was something...
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What did he hit?
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What did he hit?
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External, rear-mounted airbag. But...
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It's genius!
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Excuse me a minute.
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Three quite elderly ladies in there have now all had heart attacks.
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Look at it.
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There is that.
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Ladies, I do apologise for that.
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When have you ever experienced banging like that?
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The war.
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When the bombs dropped.
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So, you're saying that because these ladies live through the war, they're capable of dealing with a bang of that nature?
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Yeah.
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Leaving the ladies to play bowls, we went off to buy food for a picnic.
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What about some Battenbergs?
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Or is that too German?
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It is too German, isn't it?
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Sandwich spread.
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Potted meat.
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Beave spread.
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They must have ginger beer in Christchurch.
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Ginger beer's a bit racy, don't you think?
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No, they love it.
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Enid Blyton used to rub herself with it.
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There it is.
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Peruvian, Greek, Brazilian...
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Holland.
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Dutch.
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Grown in the UK.
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With the shopping finished, it was time to demonstrate yet another feature of the James.
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If you've got osteoporosis, arthritis, umbego... Or rheumatism.
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Or rheumatism, then lifting your heavy shopping into the boot Can be, well, very difficult indeed.
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But with this genius solution, not a problem.
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Bring the trolley up to the back, that's easy.
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Lift, drop in, job done.
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How brilliant is that?
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Having picked the ladies up, we set off for our picnic.
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Where did you get that mouse from?
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It's a squeaky ball he's got underneath the brake.
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Sadly, because it was an English summer's day, it soon started to rain, which revealed a bit of a design flaw.
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Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Oh, no, no, no, what's happening here?
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Oh, that's a lot of water coming in now.
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This is a disaster that we've had, Hammond.
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I think some of our modifications have interfered with the waterproofing.
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Is it all on you, dear?
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It's all a great stream down there.
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Look at the spirit of the Blitz going on as well.
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This is what makes us great.
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The Americans would be weeping now.
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Oh, they'd be making a fuss.
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What could we not do?
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Nothing.
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We had just the thing to raise our spirits even more.
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Can't help it.
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You can't, can you?
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Oh, no, the constabulary.
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Oh, not again.
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Sorry, officers.
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Nothing to see here.
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Good to see you here.
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Eventually, we arrived at exactly the sort of picnic spot elderly people love.
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There we go.
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Now, if we pop it, what, just here?
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Yeah.
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Look at that for a sunset picnic.
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Having rescued what we could from the ruined shopping trolley...
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Mr Kipling, bread.
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This is all soaked.
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...we settle down to do what all old people do when they're on a picnic together.
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I'm sorry.
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The next morning, we left Christchurch, generally quite pleased with how things had gone.
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Oh, what?
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Leaking again.
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There are a few things we need to address.
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There's the...
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Well, obviously, there's the waterproofing, the Shackleton easychairs that aren't, as it turned out, so easy to get in and out of, you know.
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The irresistible clapping machine.
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Yeah.
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Er...
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Hold on, if we carry on along here, we'll have to get on the motorway.
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Yes, I know, and that will give us the opportunity to test a feature that I fitted.
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Oh, God.
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What?
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Well, you know you're always reading, in the newspapers about an old person who's driven 30 miles the wrong way down the M1.
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Well, I've fitted something that'll stop that happening.
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How?
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Well, now, look, you see here, it's not clearly marked.
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It's easy to go the wrong way down that slip road.
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I just did.
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Exactly.
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Watch this.
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Here we go.
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I see.
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That's clever.
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That's good.
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But if I miss the signs, I could just as easily miss all this.
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Yeah, okay.
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Keep going.
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Oh, this is gonna be...
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Keep going.
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There you go.
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You idiot!
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What?
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Well, it's ruined.
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It's been a can't go on the motorway going the wrong way.
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No, we can't go anywhere because you exploded the car!
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We're alive.
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Everybody on that motorway is alive.
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This is the best solution ever.
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I've wet myself again!
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